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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scooped up by the Chiefs as a second-round draft choice in 1987, Okoye averaged only 54 yds. in rushing in his first two pro seasons. But when coach Marty Schottenheimer decided to emphasize the Chiefs' ground offense this year, Okoye found his groove. The formula is simple: they give him the ball, he runs with it. "I have to work harder than anyone else," says Okoye in his Nigerian lilt, "because everybody knows more about football than me and I have to catch up." Marvels Schottenheimer: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone with the combination...
...found an envelope in my mailbox containing two sheets of onionskin paper. The first sheet was an anonymous report on the arrest and confinement in a psychiatric hospital of Viktor Kuznetsov, an artist who had helped draft a model constitution for our country, which the authors hoped would spark discussion about the introduction of democracy...
...Western foreign ministers began their talks by agreeing to submit a draft arms-control treaty to Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna...
NATO negotiators then placed the draft on the bargaining table in Vienna, several hours after the Warsaw Pact offered its plan...
...Warsaw Pact draft proposed equal limits of 4700 on combat aircraft. NATO earlier proposed a ceiling...